Package: tomcat5.5 Version: 5.5.20-2etch1 Severity: important The /var/lib/tomcat5.5/conf/Catalina/localhost folder is owned by root:root, which prevents tomcat from copying the META-INF/context.xml file (in WAR files) into it.
Tomcat fails to report this error at all, which makes this bug extremely hard to figure out. The net result is that the context.xml file is simply ignored. In my case, the context.xml file is used to define a JDBC resource, so I get the following error message: Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null' I suppose other people will sometimes get other error messages, depending on what they expect to find in META-INF/context.xml. The work-around is very simple. As root, just type: chown tomcat55:nogroup /var/lib/tomcat5.5/conf/Catalina/localhost It might be a better idea to type: chown -R tomcat55:nogroup /var/lib/tomcat5.5/conf/Catalina By the way, my context.xml file contains the password for the connection to the database (as most people's I suppose), hence it seems to me that a chown -R go-rwx /var/lib/tomcat5.5/conf/Catalina would be useful. Hope this helps. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages tomcat5.5 depends on: ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups ii apache2-utils 2.2.3-4+etch3 utility programs for webservers ii ecj-bootstrap 3.2.1-3 bootstrap version of the Eclipse J ii gij-4.1 [java2-runtime] 4.1.1-20 The GNU Java bytecode interpreter ii libtomcat5.5-java 5.5.20-2etch1 Java Servlet engine -- core librar ii sun-java5-jre [java2-runti 1.5.0-10-3 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment ( tomcat5.5 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ pkg-java-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers
